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While you were busy

Yesterday I buried the lede in a comment in my diary offering because I knew that diary would be mostly ignored, what with it being Super Tuesday and all.

Maybe today this will actually draw some notice. South Dakota Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday vetoed the anti-transgender "bathroom bill" which targeted transgender students.

Proponents of House Bill 1008 say it protects students' privacy. Opponents say it's discrimination.

--Gov. Daugaard

Hellraisers Journal: Socialists, IWW & UMWA Unite in Defense of Charles Moyer & Big Bill Haywood

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones

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Friday March 2, 1906
From the International Socialist Review: Defense Campaign Organized

An editorial in this month's Review describes the campaign being organized by Socialists and labor organizations to defend the officials of the Western Federation of Miners now held behind the bars of the Idaho state penitentiary:

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Conspiracy to Murder.
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KFC fires manager for discriminating against transgender worker

 photo KFC_zpsj6mvldru.jpgTransgender fast food worker Georgia Carter was hired by a Richmond, Virginia, KFC and fired about an hour later upon discovery that she was trans.

He was like you have got the job. I am going to start you out at $7.50 an hour. It is yours. We are going start you training on the computer tomorrow. It was like 11 to four (o clock).

--Carter

She went home happy, but received a phone call shortly afterward.

He was like my supervisor, and I have a problem because on your license it says male but you’re … I said I’m transgender.

Oh, we can’t hire you because we don’t know which bathroom you can use.

--Carter

In a statement to Eater, KFC chief people officer John Kurnick relayed news of that manager's termination following an internal Yum! Brands inquiry. KFC's franchisee policy bars discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, Kurnick said.

WE NEVER FORGET: The Martyrs of the Great Puerto Rico Sugar Plantation Strike of 1916

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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WE NEVER FORGET
Martyrs of the Puerto Rico
Sugar Plantation Strike of 1916
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